Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick White

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

P. C. Cast

Can I flirt with another guy to make him jealous?" "Oh no." She laughed, still holding my hands. "That will unleash something you can't handle. You don't mess with men that way.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Jealousy's eyes are green.

Karen Kingsbury

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.

Elizabeth Gaskell

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.

Elizabeth Gaskell

He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.

Joel Osteen

We live in a culture that relishes tearing others down. It's ultimately more fulfilling, though, to help people reach their goals. Instead of feeling jealous, remember: If God did it for them, He can do it for you.

John Gay

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

Joe Rogan

I realized a long time ago that instead of being jealous you can be inspired and appreciative. It carries more energy to you.

Joan Didion

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

Emma Goldman

Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Emma Goldman

Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

John Milton

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

Geena Davis

When I started watching Breaking Bad, I binge-watched it. I thought it was so good that I started to cry. It's the only time in my life I've been completely jealous, the only time. I was like, [imitates crying] "I want to do what Bryan Cranston gets to do. I want a part like that." [both laugh] Isn't that pathetic?

Ludovico Ariosto

From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.

Lord Byron

Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.

Lord Chesterfield

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.

Mahatma Gandhi

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

Maggie Stiefvater

I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "And ravens," Ronan said. "You're just jealous 'cause" - at this point, he had to stop to regroup his beer-sluggish thoughts - "you didn't find one, too.

Maggie Stiefvater

I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.

Emily Dickinson

God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

Hesiod

Potter is potter's enemy, and craftsman is craftsman's rival; tramp is jealous of tramp, and singer of singer.

Helen Rowland

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

Henry James

My idea is this, that when you only love a little you’re naturally not jealous-or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn’t matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you’re in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity. When however you love in the most abysmal and unutterable way of all – whey then you’re beyond everything, and nothing can pull you down.

Henry Fielding

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.

Henry Fielding

When the effects of female jealousy do not appear openly in their proper colours of rage and fury, we may suspect that mischievous passion to be at work privately, and attempting to undermine, what it doth not attack above-ground.

Johannes Brahms

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

John Dryden

Jealousy's a proof of love, But 'tis a weak and unavailing medicine; It puts out the disease and makes it show, But has no power to cure.

John Kricfalusi

The storyboard department doesn't talk to the layout department, which doesn't talk to the writing department. They're all jealous of each other.

Jim Shaw

I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore.

Jim Shaw

The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.

Heber J. Grant

There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.